Home Health Line
06/10/2013
Nearly six months after the new M1024 rules took effect, confusion persists about if and when it’s appropriate or necessary to assign codes there, and agencies are feeling a financial pinch from case-mix points no longer available for resolved conditions.
 
06/10/2013
The latest data from OCS HomeCare show that agencies have done little to change what codes they assign to M1024, the diagnosis payment slot.
 
06/10/2013
A new report by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) shows the size of the problems CMS is trying to fix before implementing long-delayed denials for home health claims that list physicians with no record in the provider enrollment, chain and ownership system (PECOS).
 
06/10/2013
Adopt a process now to arrive at more specific diagnoses for hospice patients with debility or adult failure to thrive. Moving quickly on this will help you minimize payment delays after CMS starts returning claims with those diagnoses in the principal slot.
 
06/10/2013
Ignorance of what fair labor standards demand of employers is no excuse, a federal judge’s recent opinion in a home health case makes clear.
 
06/10/2013
Cloud-based software may be your key to protecting patient information and minimizing the risk of hefty fines for data breaches under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mega-rule.
 
06/10/2013
Agencies in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont will soon get a new Medicare administrative contractor.

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